Oh well, there goes that idea! Bought the Sims 3, installed it, everything okay at first. Then when I try to start the game, it crashes my computer just as the intro has finished playing.I didn't want to risk that happening again, so once I got my computer running again, uninstalled it straight away. Got a refund at EB.

I now have The Sims 2 installed, just the basic starter pack. It's working well. I've built a house and am considering installing Vacation soon.

Tony: "I'm not getting any reception. How about you?"Ziva: "I'm braless"Tony: "I noticed that earlier. But on your phone, they're called 'bars'"

couch_potato wrote:Oh well, there goes that idea! Bought the Sims 3, installed it, everything okay at first. Then when I try to start the game, it crashes my computer just as the intro has finished playing.I didn't want to risk that happening again, so once I got my computer running again, uninstalled it straight away. Got a refund at EB.

I now have The Sims 2 installed, just the basic starter pack. It's working well. I've built a house and am considering installing Vacation soon.

Couchy, are you a member of the Sims3 site? They have great people there in technical help to sort your problems out. I spent a lot of time there reading other peoples problems so if I encounter one, I know in advance how to fix it.

A lot of them I've noticed is third party cc.

What did you do before you installed?

They tell you first to update Origin, remove all mods and third party cc. Add new expansion/stuff packs in order of release.

What have you got apart from the base game? Are you patched up to date?

I have no idea if my patches are up to date? I'm not too computer savvy. I had no old Sims stuff installed before installing the Sims 3. I'd forgotten that I had an Origin account and had to get them to email me so I could re-do my password. After installing Sims 3, it appeared on my Origin account page that shows which games you own. I think, the problem might have been that the specs you need are 2.4 ghz or something if you are running XP and my laptop is 2.2 ghz with XP.

Tony: "I'm not getting any reception. How about you?"Ziva: "I'm braless"Tony: "I noticed that earlier. But on your phone, they're called 'bars'"

Any one else going to get it? I wasn't going to, but the more I read about it, I think I will. Good thing is that they say they're trying to make it so it plays well on lower end of the market computers, so that'll probably solve a lot of problems people have running the game with not high specs.